Season Stop Motion

Final Project Proposal

For my final I project I am planning on making a stop motion animation. I will do drawings and then erase to create the animation. I am going to show the seasons through my animations, showing one house for the entire time but have the weather and holidays change around it. I will do it in charcoal and incorporate accents of color using chalk pastels.

Starburst Commercial

SHARE SOMETHING JUICY

Experimental Composition Score

Experimental Composition

Experimental Composition Score

Each color represents a different instrument.
Each different shade of a color represents that instrument being used in a different way.
The hight and thickness of each line represents how long the sound lasted, its intensity or how high it went.

Response to "Experimental Music"

Any sound can be music, but not every sound is worth making into music. Sounds worth making into music would be sounds that will be appreciated. If the music is not going to be appreciated by anyone, not even the composer than it is not worth making. This is rare though for there to be no one any where that could appreciate a particular piece of music. You can pretty much always find at least one person that can relate to or like a piece of music. Therefore I almost all music is worth making because there will usually be at least one person that will be able to take something away from that music. A combination of sound that is always worth listening is sounds that have been arranged or composed, because that means so one has place these sounds together for a reason, so you mine as well give it a shot and listen to it once, even if you then decide you don't like it.

Amplified Assemblage

Special K Re-Edit

Special K Original Commercial

Kellogg's Special K Ad.

The ad I am re-editing is a Kellogg's Special K ad. This ad fits into the category of a "unique personal property" ad. "Unique personal property" ads make a special aspect known about their product that will make it stand out from other products like it. Kellogg's makes Special K stand out from other cereals by telling it's viewer that you can loose the extra inch of fat and watch your weight by eating Kellogg's Special K for breakfast. This ad starts out with text that reads "Introducing the Pinch". The jingle of music starts. The women proceeds to walk out of her her house onto her sunny patio carry a tray with breakfast on it. Her husband reaches out from behind his newspaper to pinch and inch of her fat, she then smiles raps her arms around him and pinches his inch of his fat. The narrator tells the viewer if you can pinch an inch of fat or more you should lose weight by eating Special K for breakfast. Throughout the whole commercial both the husband and wife have smiles on their faces, the sun is out and bright, and there is happy music playing. The advertisers have made a situation that would usually be awkward between two people, pointing out each others fat, and made it a happy and cute interaction. The ad is selling cereal but sets it apart from other cereals by saying it will make you lose weight, they are demonstrating this on a couple that does not look over weight in the least. You would think if they really wanted to prove this is for weight loss they would use a severely overweight couple, but that may give the product a bad image. The marketers of this image have thought through all these elements, because this product is not really about the importance of weight loss it is about selling this particular cereal over the one next to it at the grocery store, and making viewers think if you eat this cereal you can look cute and smily with your spouse, while your inch of fat disappears.

Situationist strategies of resistance could would not work today. Our lives have become too public for us to avoid companies analyzing what we do and using it to help them. They can monitor everything we do, unless you cut yourself off completely from the world, which probably would not be worth it. These companies are making assumtions on everything, even what type of motor oil you are buying. If you did try to act randomly or "drift" companies can still analyze what your are doing, they may even make an assumption about you that could be negative and hurt you. If you try to act randomly you may do something credit card companies do not agree with, and they may not give you a card or a good deal because you may not seem reliable. Credit card companies would not be able to neutralize or predict what resistance would happen because it would be random, but they do have to power to react to it.

Time Documentation 09/16/09

Olivia Perry

Introduction

Art Which Can't Be Art: Response

1. Kaprow aimed for a paradox in his art because he believed that art work that was not a paradox was simplistic. His paradox for art making was making artwork which was not artwork. Kaprow brushing his teeth is art because watching himself do this he has created an image that he has put thought into. He talks about how he is taking the time to notice all the feelings that go along with the motion and image of brushing your teeth. Kaprow succeeds in the modernist style, because he is breaking traditions in art. He succeeds in making artwork as a paradox because he is taking the everyday activity of brushing your teeth and turing it into an art form.

2. One activity I do in a non conscious way is running. It relates to the passage of time because everyday I plan out a set amount of time that I am going to dedicate to running. From the tying of my shoes to the movement of running I no longer have to think about it because it has become second nature. When I'm running its like my mind is somewhere else. When it comes back I could be in a whole new place and realize that I don't even remember running down the last street. Time is passing and I don't even notice. Next time I run I'll take time to feel my shoe laces as I tie them and pay attention to my feet hitting the ground, my knees bending with each step. I'll look around and try to take in the scenery. It will probably be more painful as I think of every motion in my body but it will be a new mindset to experience while running.